The NewsReader MEANTIME corpus

The MEANTIME Corpus (the NewsReader Multilingual Event ANd TIME Corpus) consists of a total of 480 news articles: 120 English Wikinews (http://en.wikinews.org/) articles on four topics (i.e. Airbus and Boeing, Apple Inc., Stock market, and General Motors, Chrysler and Ford) and their translations in Spanish, Italian, and Dutch.
It has been annotated manually at multiple levels, including entities, events, temporal information, semantic roles, and intra-document and cross-document event and entity coreference.

For a more detailed description see the video (on YouTube) or the slides.

Shared tasks

SemEval 2015

The English section has been used as trial and evaluation data for the Task “TimeLine: Cross-Document Event Ordering” at SemEval 2015.
In this context timelines have been created from the annotated articles.
For more information please visit the task’s website: http://alt.qcri.org/semeval2015/task4/.